This past Saturday I sneaked in some time triming the lips that were left over from cutting out the stringers. Still needs to be ground down and formed. I plan on running at least 12" strip of 1708 along the length of the chines before running new stringers to beef that area back up cover and grinding nicks and cuts.
Before:
After (I tell you, these workers are always sitting down on the job):
Sunday I put in a few hours while the kids played outside and got the splashwell cut out. Needed to get this out so I can get access to the remainder of the stringers and be able to get the new stringer within a foot or so of the transom (will tie it into the transom once I replace it).
Cutting the soles out adjacent to the splashwell to get access to the potter putty holding the splashwell to the top of the stringer. Starboard side was soaked and delaminated, popped right off, port side was basically brand new wood:
After marking and cutting the splashwell, I once again relied on the HF low profile to apply the needed leverage to make it pop (at 75lbs I'm getting tired of moving this thing into the boat, I'm really starting to get upset at 8 years ago me for not splurging for the aluminum one):
I knew there was some repairs done in the past to the splashwell area due to some core delamination in that area (and since the coring in that area was composite). Finally got a good look at that area with the well out.
Looks like someone cut the bottom of the splashwell out, which corroborates a theory I have that someone recored PART this transom at some point and cut out this area to gain access.
Whoever did it also added knees to the tops of the battery box "stringers" to support the new spashwell and tied them into transom. Fortunately for me the glass work for was REALLY sloppy and easily came apart:
The knees were glassed to the underside of the splashwell with a single layer of extremely resin starved CSM:
You can see the owriginal splashwell glass which the new core(s) was nested on top of:
And where they tied it into the existing splashwell:
Can also see the replaced coring (and the original lip) under the cut out splashwell:
I'll know for sure about the transom when I cut it open (after I get stringers back in the boat), but I'm pretty sure that the portion of the transom inside the yellow lines below was replaced at some point. I don't think the transom outside of those lines was replaced because wet wood is visible in the trim tab mounting/hydraulic holes:
Here's how she sits as of now (looking at this I just realized I still need to take that last coaming pad off):
Lots of grinding in the near future. Thanks for looking!